Quote Originally Posted by AveoSS View Post
My Accent was more reliable than the Focus, never put a dime on it, went to Vegas on it many times, no issues. The Focus was a nicer car overall, better quality materials, better handling etc, too bad it was totally unreliable, wife is a paralegal and worked in a law firm, she was so pissed at Ford when they refused to honor the warranty she started a class action law suit, she drove them mad for 7 years! Than Ford settled it, wife got about 10k(because she was the class rep) everybody else got fricking coupons for free service on out of warranty cars(judge decision). Ford will fight u like a 'drunk irish man', they ended up with a 20million dollar bill on that case(mostly going to attorneys fees). So intead of fix my wifes car for $500, they chose to pay 20mill, yeah, they must have real 'Genious' running that company...and they should have put the Escort engine on it, I had 2 Escorts, they were super reliable...
Both engines in the Focus, the 2.0L Zetec, AND the 2.0L CVH were available in the Escort of the time.